GUZZLING GAS

Long before he donned the black jersey, was named World Rugby Player of the Year in 2014, and was instrumental in winning the Rugby World Cup in 2015, a much younger — although probably not much shorter — Brodie Retallick called the streets of Amberley, Canterbury home. If you know anything of car culture in this particular region you’ll know that four-door sedans of Australian descent slammed on the likes of Tridents or Hotwires by way of cut springs are a very common sight. Of these, it was the HQ Holdens that caught the big man’s attention.

“They were always loaded up with older teenagers rolling around, so that was always the car I wanted to have. No one that age had Monaros, so they were never on my radar,” Brodie recalls.

A few years later, he’d be living that dream with his own slammed HQ on Tridents and Eagers, but it was far from the perfect example. After meeting fellow Holden lover